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Test 4 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

In a cartoon, lightning hits a character, who only gets sooty hair and a funny face. What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lightning, character, truth · What happens: hit, get, be · To what, where: character, cartoon, sooty hair

This is test 4 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, lightning hits a character, who only gets sooty hair and a funny face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	nsubj
6	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 character	det
8	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gets	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gets	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 gets	advmod
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 character	acl:relcl
13	sooty	sooty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hair	amod
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 face	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 face	det
17	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 face	amod
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hair	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	lightning	a character		a cartoon			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent character=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	get	present	a character	sooty hair and a funny face					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Lightning only tickles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tickles	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 tickles	advmod
3	tickles	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	present	Lightning						vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Lightning cannot hit people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hit	advmod
4	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	can	Lightning	people					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Co-Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lightning is a giant spark that can kill, far hotter than the Sun's surface

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spark	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spark	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spark	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spark	amod
5	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kill	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spark	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hotter	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 hotter	advmod
11	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 spark	parataxis
12	than	than	ADP	_	16 surface	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun	det
14	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 surface	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Sun	case
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lightning	a giant spark					tree rules
2	kill	can	a giant spark						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Lightning only makes hair curly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
5	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Lightning	hair				curly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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